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Unmount (perhaps spin down) a disk device
Authored by: LC on Feb 06, '04 08:23:04PM
Uh, I noticed that diskutil depends on a bunch of frameworks including DiskArbitration. It's only usable after SystemStarter
has been executed. I even managed (by doing something dumb in the boot scripts) to provoke the dreaded --
Carbon Lazy Values Total size: 11057 bytes!
by trying to execute diskutil before the kernel extension loader service was up! (Duh;)
After SystemStarter is done, I can play with diskutil just fine; Larry.

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